xvi, 534 pages : 24 cm

"The best of The Nation's articles, essays, poems and drawings."--Jacket

Includes index

Introduction / E.L. Doctorow -- Original prospectus of The Nation -- The danger of the hour [editorial] -- Saratoga / Henry James -- The moral of Tweed's career / E.L. Godkin -- The Week [circus clowns and journalists] -- The execution of the anarchists / E.L. Godwin -- The pesky anti-imperialist / W.P. Garrison -- The Week [military spending] ; [the tango] -- American liberalism [letter to the editor] / Arthur Garfield Hays -- The making of a Red / Robert C. Benchley -- The madness at Versailles / William MacDonald -- The Week [Lenin and Trotzky and baseball] -- No newspapers for Debs [letter to the editor] / Theodore Debs -- Sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind [editorial] -- The conquest of Haiti / Herbert J. Seligman -- Ulysses [book reveiw] / Gilbert Seldes -- The Week [Tut-ankh-amen's tomb] -- Minnesota: the Norse state / Sinclair Lewis -- Nebraska: the end of the first cycle / Willa Cather -- H.L. Mencken / H.L. Mencken -- Zionism--alive and triumphant / Chaim Weizmann -- A net spread in vain [correspondence between Oswald Garrison Villard and George Bernard Shaw] -- Georgia: invisible empire state / W.E.B. DuBois

Class justice in Germany [letter to the editor] / Adolf Hitler -- The war in Passaic / Mary Heaton Vorse -- First glance [book review, T.S. Elliot's poetry] / Mark van Doren -- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- Mother-worship / Crystal Eastman -- Poor me and pure Boston / Upton Sinclair -- Justice underfoot [editorial] -- Mass movies / Sergei Eisenstein -- The passport nuisance / Ezra Pound -- Yehudi Menuhin [letter to the editor] / Moshe Menuhin -- With Sandino in Necaragua / Carleton Beals -- Out of bondage / Freda Kirchwey -- It seems to Heywood Broun / Heywood Broun -- Is literature possible? / Lionel Trilling -- The 1932 Disarmament Conference / Albert Einstein -- The pot and kettle / Oswald Garrison Villard -- The "Odyssey" of Disney / James Thurber -- The tragedy of political exiles / Emma Goldman -- Dust changes America / Margaret Bourke-White -- Our critics, right or wrong / Mary McCarthy and Margaret Marshall -- The fall of Joe Louis / James T. Farrell -- Big parade, 1936 model / John Dos Passos -- On being modern-minded / Bertrand Russell -- The pacifist's dilemma / Norman Thomas -- I stand with the Spanish people / Thomas Mann -- Spain's tragic anniversary / Louis Fischer -- Einstein in Hollywood / George S. Kaufman -- Making defense safe for Alcoa / I.F. Stone

Mother and son [book review, Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother] / Henry Miller -- For the Jews--life or death? / I.F. Stone -- The people are indivisible / Archibald MacLeish -- One world or none [editorial] -- French existentialism / Hannah Arendt -- Americans and their myths / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Film [The treasure of the Sierra Madre] / James Agee -- Writers in America / Stephen Spender -- Life on the black list / Guy Endore -- American Christmas / Nelson Algren -- Bill of Rights Day [editorial] -- Red China at Geneva / Edgar Snow -- A modest proposal / Arthur Miller -- Justice in Sumner / Dan Wakefield -- The ruins of memory / Josephine Herbst -- Spit in the devil's eye / Sarah Boyle -- Theatre [Long day's journey into night] / Harold Clurman -- Blacklist=black marketing / Dalton Trumbo -- Jazz poetry / Kenneth Rexroth -- The safe car you can't buy / Ralph Nader -- It's only Nikita, after all [editorial] -- Are we training Cuban guerrillas? [editorial] -- "Manchurian candidate" in Dallas / Richard Condon -- The motorcycle gangs: losers and outsiders / Hunter S. Thompson -- The last steep ascent / Martin Luther King jr. -- A report from occupied territory / James Baldwin -- Paradise Reagan-ed [editorial] -- One cheer for the hippies / Jack Newfield -- As we see it [editorial, the 1968 presidential election]

On Vietnam / Ernest Gruening --The hubris of a president / William Shirer -- The women of the boycott / Barbara L. Baer and Glenna Matthews -- SDS around the campfire / Todd Gitlin -- The dilemma of American Jewry / Arthur Samuelson -- White paper on the White Paper / James Petras -- East, West, is there a third way? / E.P. Thompson -- The return of Cold War liberalism / Andrew Kopkind -- The long shadow [editorial] -- The worst addiction of them all / Kurt Vonnegut -- Uncivil liberties / Calvin Trillin -- Requiem for the American empire / Gore Vidal -- Land of Jekyll and Hyde / Carlos Fuentes -- The revenge of Ahab [editorial] -- Tough as bob war and other stuff / Molly Ivins -- The strange case of Baby M / Katha Pollitt -- Sovieticus / Stephen F. Cohen -- Minority report [the death penalty] / Christopher Hitchens -- Delirious New York [book review, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Dissent special issue] / John Leonard -- Beat the devil [the legacy of My Lai] / Alexander Cockburn -- For Jesse Jackson and his campaign [editorial] -- In the heart of Le Pen country / Daniel Singer -- Casting out the "People's Church" / Penny Lernoux -- White-collar thuggery [book reveiw, Russell Mokhiber's Corporate Crime and Violence] / Robert Sherrill -- Palestine agenda / Edward W. Said -- The deadly costs of an obsession [with responses by Martin Bauml Duberman and ACT UP] / Darrell Yates Rist -- Art [Andy Warhol] / Arthur Danto -- Abbie / Paul Krassner -- March to a crossroads on abortion / Meredith Tax -- The right to life: what can the white man say to the black woman? / Alice Walker -- Bush's splendid little war / Richard J. Barnet

Poetry. Bare almond trees / D.H. Lawrence -- The bear / Robert Frost -- Four poems / Emily Dickinson -- Song of the little death / Federico Garcia Lorca -- The dream / Louise Bogan -- Long-legged fly / W.B. Yeats -- On an old horn / Wallace Stevens -- Matthew Arnold / W.H. Auden -- Memory / Carl Sandburg -- The mind is an enchanting thing / Marianne Moore -- The death of the sheriff / Robert Lowell -- A game at Salzburg / Randall Jarrell -- The plain sense of things / Wallace Stevens -- What happened the day a poet was appointed postmaster / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- A Brueghel nativity / William Carlos Williams -- Two views of a cadaver room / Sylvia Plath -- The starry night / Anne Sexton -- After the ball / LeRoi Jones -- Up rising / Robert Duncan -- Johnson's cabinet watched by ants / Robert Bly -- What were they like? (questions and answers) / Denise Levertov -- Gift / W.S. Merwin -- Marsh, hawk / Margaret Atwood -- The arrival / Ernesto Cardenal -- To a blossoming pear tree / James Wright -- Teeth / May Swenson -- Nightfall / Octavio Paz -- Injustice / Pablo Neruda -- Tears / Josephine Jacobsen -- Afterword / Victor Navasky

List of illustrations. Sacco and Vanzetti / Ben Shahn -- I.F. Stone / David Levine -- Cold War II / Robert Grossman -- "It's only a theory" / Edward Sorel -- Woodcuts / Fritz Eichenberg

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